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From: svpillay@idunno.Princeton.EDU (Kanthan Pillay)
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Subject: Re: Forcing sendmail to use dns.
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Date: 1 Feb 91 23:48:59 GMT
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In article <HAROLDT.91Jan31110804@paralandra.yorku.ca> haroldt@paralandra.yorku.ca (Harold Tomlinson) writes:
>  Under 4.5.1 of Risc/Os... our mailer died.  We now have incomming mail
>from the net, but cannot send mail out from the box.  Does anyone know how
>I can force the use of dns?  I put "host: dns files" in /etc/vis.conf, I 
>even tried "host: dns", but still cannot send mail off the box.  All mail
>returns with "host unknown".  

The RISCos documentation for vis.conf lies. if you change the entry in
vis.conf from "host" to "hosts", then it seems to work.

				Kanthan Pillay
				Systems Administrator
				Program in Applied and Computational Math
				Princeton University

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